'Something about that fellow Eldon in a Belwick newspaper.

What do you think ?' Adela kept still and mute.
'Whatever it is, it cannot interest us, Alfred,' said Mrs.Waltham, with dignity.

'We had rather not hear it.' 'Well, you shall read it for yourself,' replied Alfred on a second thought.

'I think you'd like to know.' His mother took the paper under protest, and glanced down at the paragraph carelessly.

But speedily her attention became closer.
'An item of intelligence,' wrote the London gossiper, 'which I dare say will interest readers in certain parts of--shire.